Pssst...pass it around! The Black Adder strikes again!

[badgerpup]

Found this over on AMERICAblog.
Think it says it all...pass it round, rate it up!
I do love me some Rowan Atkinson...:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uzZNWu9LNc&eurl=

and here's the dialogue...
GENERAL: Now, Field Marshal Hague has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field.

CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: Ah, would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy, sir?

CAPTAIN DARLING: How could you possibly know that Blackadder, it's classified information?

CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: It's the same plan that we used last time, and the seventeen times before that.

GENERAL: Ex... ex... ex... actly! And that is what is so brilliant about it! It will catch the watchful Hun totally off guard. Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time!

There is, however, one small problem.

CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: That everyone always gets slaughtered in the first ten seconds?

GENERAL: That's right. And Field Marshal Hague is worried that this may be depressing the men a tad. So, he's looking to find a way to cheer them up.

CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: Well, his resignation and suicide would seem the obvious.

I don't know whether to :patriot:, :cry:, :banghead:. or :rofl:

[meegbear]

1. Sounds like The Black Adder Goes Fourth ...

The 3rd was with George III.

[badgerpup]

2. OK...will correct...

...but thought there were only three.
Didn't know about the George III one. :blush:

[Geoff R. Casavant]

4. Actually, there were five

There was a smaller special set in the future, with a Blackadder who goes back in time, and IIRC, married Maid Marian from Robin Hood (played by Kate Moss), and eventually returns to the future to discover his tampering with history has made the Blackadders the hereditary rulers of Britain.

I loved the ending song:

A thrill in ev'ry Briton's heart
For now our country's going to make it.
At last, a king who looks the part;
At last, a queen who looks good naked . . .

[Cassandra]

3. I was just going to post that.

Blackadder is always a good source for lunacy dressed up as the establishment.

[Zookeeper]

5. Great post, Badgerpup.

That sums up my feelings as I watch the news talking heads debate whether Dim Son's "surge" will be effective. HELLO? Emperor Bush hasn't succeeded at anything so far, except losing 3,000 American soldiers and creating utter chaos in Iraq. Why bother even pretending a surge will help? The situation, thanks to BushCo, is FUBAR.

(BTW, I love Blackadder!)

[ellenfl]

6. big blackadder fan here! will watch later. thanks. eom

[JoDog]

7. Watched it for the first time

a few months ago (I love Netflix!). I was struck by how Blackadder IV's send up of WWI could also be used as satire of the Iraq war. Strangely, it was the only Blackadder to have kind of a bittersweet ending (I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure) while the other chapter ended in pure comedy. Perhaps that's another paralell.

[Strelnikov_]

9. The Ending Really Did Underscore The Waste That War Is

Guess the memories of Ypres, the Somme and Arras were still strong enough that a lighthearted ending would not have been appropriate.

[badgerpup]

8. Shameless kick for the evening crowd...

..and just because I CAN...:crazy:


:kick:

[annabanana]

10. and thank you for doing it

I really like Black Adder...